{"id":110845,"date":"2025-05-06T18:25:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T18:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bossforward.org\/?p=110845"},"modified":"2025-06-04T16:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T16:39:08","slug":"sinking-spring-downtown-improvements-at-a-crossroads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bossforward.org\/?p=110845","title":{"rendered":"Sinking Spring downtown improvements now at a crossroads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"777\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/bossforward.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/REG-L-Columbia-Avenue-in-Sinking-Spring-Closed1218.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-110851\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bossforward.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/REG-L-Columbia-Avenue-in-Sinking-Spring-Closed1218.webp 777w, https:\/\/bossforward.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/REG-L-Columbia-Avenue-in-Sinking-Spring-Closed1218-300x222.webp 300w, https:\/\/bossforward.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/REG-L-Columbia-Avenue-in-Sinking-Spring-Closed1218-768x567.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 777px) 100vw, 777px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s been 15 years since Sinking Spring officials first talked about realigning two crooked intersections on Penn Avenue and constructing a parallel boulevard to create a new, walkable town center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until this summer, the only tangible outcome from more than a decade of planning has been the redevelopment of the former Boscov\u2019s department store site. About 15 businesses now occupy Spring Market, a shopping plaza at the southeast corner of Penn Avenue (Route 422) and Shillington Road (Route 724).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/2023\/09\/11\/sinking-spring-downtown-improvements-at-crossroads\/\">Read More &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been 15 years since Sinking Spring officials first talked about realigning two crooked intersections on Penn Avenue and constructing a parallel boulevard to create a new, walkable town center. Until this summer, the only tangible outcome from more than a decade of planning has been the redevelopment of the former Boscov\u2019s department store site. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":110851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1510],"tags":[1502,1501],"class_list":["post-110845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-borough-events","tag-intersection-improvement","tag-revitalization"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bossforward.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bossforward.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bossforward.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bossforward.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bossforward.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110845"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bossforward.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111146,"href":"https:\/\/bossforward.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110845\/revisions\/111146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bossforward.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bossforward.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bossforward.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bossforward.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}